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1. Christmas Coon (mebigbrain@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 12-Dec-2024 16:08:45 JST Christmas Coon

   • owen cyclops
   The Youngins don't remember this, but there was a time when America was so implicitly Christian that this wouldn't be shocking, characters in media that isn't explicitly Christian would casually mention church or Jesus or prayer not as a joke but just a normal yet essential part of our lives. 20-something zoomers are not old enough to remember this time and I find that pretty sad. Maybe the one-two punch of the Catholic Church scandals and 9/11 left people burned out on religion and our persistent enemies seized that opportunity to push hard for active secularism. We have definitely lost something regardless.
   
   RT: https://hell.twtr.plus/objects/450586a0-2a7c-435e-baed-3127c9d53724
   • Ardainian Hebrew Israelite (ardainianright@detroitriotcity.com)'s status on Thursday, 12-Dec-2024 16:08:44 JST Ardainian Hebrew Israelite

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     • Wolfgirl in Wheatfield
     • owen cyclops
     @wgiwf @owenbroadcast @MeBigbrain
     They're Berenstain, not Berenstein. A lot of people get it mixed up.
   • Wolfgirl in Wheatfield (wgiwf@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 12-Dec-2024 16:08:45 JST Wolfgirl in Wheatfield

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     • owen cyclops
     @MeBigbrain @owenbroadcast Wait the Berenstein Bears aren't jewish? My entire world view is upended.
     
     I've never read them but as a kid I always thought they were jewish because of the name, we must be on the other timeline.
   • ❄️:padoru: SantaSnekFriend :padoru:❄️ (supersnekfriend@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 12-Dec-2024 16:25:05 JST ❄️:padoru: SantaSnekFriend :padoru:❄️

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     • Wolfgirl in Wheatfield
     • owen cyclops
     @wgiwf @MeBigbrain @owenbroadcast
     I think authors converted after starting the franchise, if I recall correctly.
   • hazlin no plap pirate (hazlin@shortstacksran.ch)'s status on Thursday, 12-Dec-2024 16:30:47 JST hazlin no plap pirate

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     • owen cyclops
     @MeBigbrain @owenbroadcast
     > Maybe the one-two punch of the Catholic Church scandals and 9/11 left people burned out
     
     WWII era had a lot of people fall away from God. In the time since then it came back very strong. But, at its peak, it became, super hard, super judgemental, super legalistic.
     
     It burned out at that peak, finding pride in their moral superiority, and abandoning God.
     
     The next generation grew up in the shell of the church, completely disillusioned with its hypocrisy. And, they departed. Leaving many churches with large elderly populations.
     
     Today it is split, you have half wanting to return to the super judgement, which brought about the fall, and the other half has embraced new-age spirituality. Both repulse their prospective converts.
   • Wolfgirl in Wheatfield (wgiwf@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 12-Dec-2024 16:30:47 JST Wolfgirl in Wheatfield

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     • hazlin no plap pirate
     • owen cyclops
     @hazlin @owenbroadcast @MeBigbrain The uncritical embrace of the Republican party by the "moral majority" churches was also a huge self own. Tying your church to zionism and heartless liberal economics isn't Christian values in the least. It also to a large extent brought about the new atheist movement by tying zionist foreign policy to more traditional Christian morality to gain mainstream political acceptance, (if you're an anti-war leftist you can't help but notice the harmful impact of "Christian" zionism on the world stage).
     For all the talk no "Defense of Marriage" amendment was ever passed (by the party and president that supported liberalization of divorce) and all those churches who were suckered are now culturally irrelevant.
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